apbailey
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These are manmade, but they were created in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s for waterfowl. they are mounded earth, brush, and trees that serve as islands for geese to lay eggs and raise their young relatively free from coyotes and other predators. As the previous poster said, they were a joint project between Ducks Unlimited and the federal government that has been a resounding success. In fact, most of the water features on the Devil's Garden have been built for waterfowl habitat. It's one of the most productive areas for breeding on the continent.
The mounds at the Grass Lake rest area on us-97 are the same things.
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SatAM17
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PS. The dots are layed out in a linear fashion from East to West. Some dots are bigger than others but are always aligned.
That's another reason why I ruled out ant hills. Does anyone know of anytype of geo testing in the area or surveying of any kind?
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Cintos
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Greetings:
Reviewing your Wyoming anomolies, I find it interesting and suggestive that they all line up directly underneath a proposed filght line of ejecta lofted from the Bigh Horn Basin into the High Plains Playas of Texas and New Mexico.
I am attaching a Keyhole file showing the hypothetical Big Horn Crater, the flight line and a collection of aligned landforms in the Clovis area.
The Big Horn Crater is being proposed as a possible solution to the Heart Mountain Geologic Enigma.
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gdwsr
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I sent Angie a message on these.
These are "goose islands" that are built recently to provide nesting habitat for waterfowl.
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SatAM17
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I appreciate your response.
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Cintos
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Greetings SatAM17 :
Reviewing the "Wyoming Land Anomalies " again, it is apparent that one of the primary drivers of the "area" in question is the higher resolution GE images available along that N-S corridor. Many of the landforms continue to be suggestive to me of being ejecta, but others - the "linear features" are not.
The "Dots close to a Water" point to the Tear Drop lake I have placemarked in the attached KMZ file. That lake is aligned towards the PZ Big Horn Basin Crater immediately to the NNW.
The randomly distributed "dots" remind me of "Mima Mounds " or "pimple mounds"
My educated guess is that some of the linear & equally-spaced "dots" are electric transmission towers and their bases.
The "Rectiliniar Features" and "More Strange Features" are all about 100 ft long, and may be trenches cut for minearal exploration exposures.
As for other oriented landforms in the Chaco Canyon area, I concur that these are irrigation features.
Please note that my earlier keyhole file only contained a very small sample of the aligned High Plains Playa Lakes I have identified in another BBS post, US Southwest Playas: oriented Carolina bays?. These lakes have never been discribed as man made, nor do they have any linear geometric characteristics, but are oval and tear-dropped shaped similar to the Carolina bays. They are universally aligned to a NNW, SSE axis.
Edited by Cintos (05/04/06 09:32 AM)
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SatAM17
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Yes, those Mima mounds are very interesting and are similar to the mounds North of Mount Shasta. thanks for posting the link!
Mound Formations Near Mt. Shasta, California They appear to be the same size as those in the Modoc National forest and that's the reason I posted the Modoc circles since they do appear to be similar to the Shasta unexplained mounds.
There are more of these strange mounds near Serpent Mound in Ohio on the same page above.
If you are interested, sign up for the Yahoo Group and you will be sent an e-mail each time the site is updated. I plan on posting those Shasta circles at the site for future reference and I will include more images.
Thanks for that link, very interesting. The mounds near Mt. Shasta are near a rest stop and I was told by someone who has seen them that they are considered unexplained and there is a sign near the mounds that explains this. However, the person who contacted me about them said there seemed to be a wall like feature around each one of them which did suggest artificiality.
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SatAM17
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Looks like these Wyoming sites are not the phenomenon called 'mima mounds' but are potential modern day survey signs.
Thanks for all the input.
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gdwsr
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This is where they hold the Burning Man Festival. There is a placemark there for that.
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ProfFrink
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This looks to me like a string of impact craters from a fractured comet or meteorite. Take a look at this image of the Davy crater system from the moon. Looks pretty similar to me.
ProfFrink
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